Sentence examples for meant straight from inspiring English sources

Even Harry Belafonte wrote, in his memoir, about his mother's well-intentioned counsel to "marry a woman with good hair," and he added, in unnecessary clarification, "Good hair meant straight hair".

For LGBT people, allyship has historically meant straight people supporting LGBT rights; but as LGBT students feel accepted and privileged themselves, we believe they should "pay it forward" by acting as allies themselves.

I mean, straight men can wear cowl-neck sweaters!

And in this case, Mr. Lowry noted, straight really does mean straight.

All this means straight driving off the tee will be essential, which does not bode well for the world No2, Phil Mickelson.

A fake vanity plate on her door says "DERECHA," a play on her name that can mean "straight" in Spanish; the letters are crooked.

"When it was conducted legitimately -- I mean straight, as far as the bucket shop went -- the fluctuations took care of the shoestrings.

Gustavus Hinrichs, a physics professor from the University of Iowa and founder of the Iowa Weather Service, applied the term derecho a Spanish word that means "straight" or "right"—to straight-line winds in 1888.

It's interesting that many European languages, including English, the word for right has positive connotations – German's recht also means correct, and the French droit means straight or straightforward, but left's gauche can also mean awkward or clumsy.

For some reason, people – I mainly mean "straight men" but, really, it applies to all sorts – feel that jeans are safer than any other trousers, that they make less of a statement, or something boneheaded like that.

This does not mean straight away that it should be removed.